popular. a lot of the decisions in terms of getting our budget under control may not be popular, but i think the reason that allen and erskine took on this assignment is because they were convinced i was sear about it and i will stand with them as they come up with the recommendations. thank you very much, everybody. all right, the president of the united states right there. members of his debt commission, the commission on fiscal responsibility and reform, first formal meeting today, 10:00 a.m. eastern and its purpose, trying to crack down the nation s biggest money problem, getting the deficit to 3% of the gross domestic product by 2015, the president says. we ll follow it e special he long term. we begin the top of the hour right now. born in the usa. now on america s most wanted list of al qaeda leaders, we just got this video in of anwar albuquerque aki, he s blaming bombings on islamic militants. we ve seen it before, but this is the first time he s been on
responsibility, but in practice, this responsibility for the future is often overwhelmed by the politics of the moment. it falls prey to special interest pressures, to the poll of local concerns and for the reality of every single american. it s a hot easier to spend a dollar than to save one. that s what led to these exploding deficits and that is what will heed to a day of reckoning, but i believe with the help of these gentlemen and this commission we can begin to meet this challenge in a serious and thoughtful way, and i believe we must for the future of our country. so allen, erskine, thank you. we have a serious group in there of democrats and republicans, public sector and private sector, people who are sincere about this effort, and i told them that we are serious about it as well. i think i ve shown over the last year that i m willing to do things even when they re not
of a untenable situation and was looking for a way out. in some ways, pushing this to congress is his way of doing that. and also i would hike to point out, that tweet tonight, may will reflective of something we were given a heads up to watch for. this is a president who this afternoon and this evening has likely been watching the media coverage of his decision. and if he found that it was very negative, he might send a tweet to soften it. so allen, jonathan talks correctly the president looking for a middle ground. is there a middle ground for the dreamers? does his tweet change anything for them that was set in motion earlier today? i don t think it does at all. when you put yourself in their shoes, we can sit here and talk about the president s management style, the message they re delivering, the way that his message is being delivered to congress and what they should do about it. but put yourself in the shoes of these 800,000 or so undocumented immigrants who are sitting ther
message, they re hearing the president say he loves them. but at the same time, the department of homeland security was clear this morning in a conference call with reporters saying that 100% they are they will become eligible for deportation once their daca status expires. they made very clear that they can use immigration and customs enforcement agents will be able to use the information that these people provided to the federal government to qualify for daca, they ll be able to use that to track them down if they need to in extreme cases. and we ve seen of the last seven months, the department of homeland security that has increased the percentage of undocumented immigrants that are arrested that do not have a criminal record. they re looking at that background, that leadup to this. so one tweet, one throwaway line in the tweet has not changed the fact that they are all terrified right now and thinking their time is up pretty soon. allen, enter congress, and no reason to think t